Charlie Sheen and the Visualization Machine
When Nathan Yau of FlowingData poses a visualization challenge, we listen. When that data prominently features Charlie Sheen who is…
Academy Awards and Analytics-based Performance Management
I always find the acceptance speeches at Hollywood’s Academy Awards to be inspirational. The ones I enjoy most are Oscar…
The Hegemony of Large Numbers – Ignoring Common Sense
Ok, maybe I’m stretching the meaning there, but that’s a cool sounding title, and what I see as an interesting…
Data Management and the Navy: The Navy Virtualizes
If you thought data management was difficult in business, imagine the nightmare it becomes in the Navy. The Navy faces…
How Data Analytics Helps Sports Teams Win
For sports teams, analyzing and visualizing data — on-field and in the stands — is still an emerging discipline. In…
The Keyword Tree – Spotfire, Data Visualization and Text Mining
Lately, I am getting very interested in data visualization and text mining. Just got the evaluation version of Tibco Spotfire…
What Data Visualization Reveals About Your Own LinkedIn Network
My LinkedIn profile says I have 305 connections. I have a sense of where they have all come from –…
Security and Data Visualization- Use the NCTC WITS system
The work of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) is important and, because of the need to protect our nation’s information…
Design Goals for Developing Distributed Applications
In my last post (Wide open spaces) we discussed the elegance of using space based architecture platforms based on their…
Dear Watson: What is life?
Scouring Twitter for Watson stuff, I just came across some deep questions for the machine from @larrylugo, such as: larrylugo…
